When Warren Buffet unexpectedly announced his retirement at the end of 2025, \u201cpeople in the crowd, many of whom were in tears, rose from their seats in a standing ovation for a singular figure in the business world.\u201d The Oracle of Omaha, as he is known, \u201cis often described as a symbol of American capitalism. In truth, he is an outlier. He is more the conscience of capitalism, willing to speak uncomfortable truths about the system\u2019s ills while others remained silent.\u201d A humble billionaire, Buffet \u201calways comes across as a gentleman, and in an age of distrust he has become a trusted figure.\u201d No doubt, another \u201cof his biggest accomplishments\u201d was \u201cusing his annual Berkshire letters and marathon Q&A sessions with shareholders to educate generations about business, investing and life itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Warren Buffet unexpectedly announced his retirement at the end of 2025, \u201cpeople in the crowd, many of whom were in tears, rose from their seats in a standing ovation for a singular figure in the business world.\u201d The Oracle of Omaha, as he is known, \u201cis often described as a symbol of American capitalism. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2763,402,1962,2098,13538,16512,4058,16510,7565,7987,2190,465,200,16511,9304,8,16513],"class_list":["post-12845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-berkshire","tag-buffet","tag-capitalism","tag-conscience","tag-educate","tag-gentleman","tag-humble","tag-oracle-of-omaha","tag-outlier","tag-ovation","tag-qa","tag-retirement","tag-shareholders","tag-tears","tag-trusted","tag-u-s","tag-uncomfortable-truths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12855,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12845\/revisions\/12855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}